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Pretests were administered to the SOCI B2 and SOCI B20 courses during the first week of class and prior to any course related instruction. The posttest was administered as a component of the final examination. The three SOCI B1 courses were only administered a posttest. As indicated by Table 1, the students in both SOCI B2 and SOCI B20 achieved a significant increase in test scores between the pre- and post- test, 45.2% and 56.4 respectively. The posttest scores for SOCI B1 were comparable to the other two courses.

Course

Test

Percentage Correct

Average

Difference

SOCI B1.1

Post

n=40

90

75

50

60

75

90

70

100

80

75

76.5

No Pretest

SOCI B1.2

Post

n=40

100

80

55

58

88

93

78

100

60

75

78.7

SOCI B1.3

Post

n=38

82

87

55

66

74

79

66

92

84

87

77.2

SOCI B2

Pre

n=32

27

27

15

3

9

3

15

36

27

39

20.1

+ 45.2

Post

n=30

59

93

86

59

59

59

48

69

66

55

65.3

SOCI B20

Pre

n=55

20

15

22

0

17

61

12

20

39

7

21.3

+ 56.4

Post

n=45

83

77

77

93

77

50

87

47

93

93

77.7

The degree of increase is due, in part, to the fact that the majority of students who take these sociology courses are doing so in order to meet general education requirements and they have very little prior knowledge of the nature of sociology.

However, the assessment would still indicate that a significant degree of new knowledge has been acquired.